Chapter 17:

"Weapons Left!" Franky lifted his left arm and his wrist opened to show small barrels of machine guns inside. Burgess turned his body to the side a little to make himself a smaller target and rose his right arm. The arm was covered in steel and blocked his entire torso. Loud clanks sounded as the bullets slammed into the contraption and then fell to the ground with no effect.

"Wiihahaha!" Burgess started running towards Franky and closed the short distance on the stone section between them. The wrestler threw a heavy hook with his left hand and hit Franky in the face, but the man with the blue afro was a boxer and punched back two times at his opponent's chest. The large steel fists made Jesus Burgess wince, but he didn't get pushed back and this time smashed forward with his right arm.

The huge metal covering didn't look good to Franky and the Straw Hat Pirate jumped up in the air to avoid the punch. He puffed out his chest in midair and tilted his head back away from the pirate below him, "Fresh Fire!" He threw his head forward and a blast of fiery breath came down at the man below.

Burgess jumped up in the air over the stream of fire and he punched with his right arm again. Franky tried to block by raising his two huge forearms but when the fist collided, he knew it was the wrong move. Everything started to vibrate and he could feel his body crumpling with the block. Loud creaks were heard as even the strong metal used to create Pacifista couldn't withstand the powerful attack. Little wisps of air were seeping through the holes on Jesus's weapon and he pushed harder into it, creating a large dent on the metal and sending Franky crashing down into the large chunk of stone on top of the dirt section.

The cyborg pulled himself out of the hole quickly and didn't look at his arms. He could feel the dents on his Armored-me BF-37, and didn't have to look to know it was bad. Can't play around here, this 'Champ' is in the big leagues. He rose his arms and cupped his hands together so there was a small hole between them where he could see his opponent. "Franky Radical," a small white light was forming in his hands and Burgess was amazed and nervous at the same time, "BEAM!"

Jesus Burgess only had a split second to dive out of the way as the beam came towards him. His eyes were shining bright stars because of how amazed he was, but he jumped to the right and then was thrown by the huge explosion on the ground behind him. The beam was more impressive than Don Krieg's in the battle against Hawk-Eyes yesterday and every male in the room was amazed.

The commander of Blackbeard's first ship got back on his feet and brushed off some dirt on him. He had some burns on his skin, but he was smiling and laughed at the brightly colored cyborg, "Is that all you've got? Wiihahaha!"

"Why don't we stop talking, and get to fighting?" Franky said in a cool tone as he rose his fists to box again. The two men charged at each other and when they were fifteen feet away, Franky lifted his right arm, "Strong Right!" his fist shot off and hit Jesus in the face as he was approaching.

The man with the purple afro took the fist to the face and his legs came out from under him, still moving forward while his head was pushed back. The crowd oooed at the sound of metal on flesh and Burgess was on the ground again. It didn't take even a few seconds for the man to get back on his feet and he was still smiling.

Franky frowned and looked at the top of his opponent's head, "Your afro is impressive," he said in a calm tone, "unfortunately for you," he added and put his left hand up to his face again, "mine can get bigger!"

Everyone in the room became silent and stared down as Franky's finger pressed to his nose. I don't have unlimited hair, but my systems can definitely take a little more! The three seconds were up and it lasted a few more until Franky's afro more than doubled in size. The collective gasp around the room showed how impressive the two fighters down below were. Franky's blue afro was now larger than the purple one on Burgess's head.

Sanji almost dropped the cigarette from his mouth, "I didn't know he could make his afro so big."

"We've truly been on a ship with a legend," Robin said with a smile as Nami shouted in angry confusion. Zoro and Luffy nodded stoically at her comment and the orange haired woman finally sighed in exasperation.

Jesus Burgess had a dropped jaw for a few seconds and then Franky ran in for more boxing. Blackbeard's nakama tried elbowing his opponent, but Franky caught the right arm before it finished its motion and he pushed it back before punching Burgess in the stomach. He slammed him back and forth with his fists and blood was flying from Burgess's face as he did.

The Blackbeard pirates were screaming for their commander and everyone in the room was getting into the intense boxing match. It wasn't completely one-sided, and Burgess's left fist caught Franky off guard a few times too, a very heavy hitting left fist. Cyborg Franky was unstoppable though with his afro power at maximum potential. He rose a knee into his foe's stomach, following up by putting both hands together and swinging them like a bat into Jesus's face so his opponent was thrown across the dirt section and into the back wall.

The crowd went wild as Burgess's top half was in a hole in the wall and he was bent backwards leaning through it. His legs were still moving and everyone knew he was getting back up, but that was a hard hit had to hurt a lot. Before Jesus even got up through the wall, the crowd and his opponent felt unnerved by the low-pitched laughing coming from the hole. "Wii, ha, ha, ha," the man lifted himself up and kept laughing in a lower tone than before. "You think you can make a fake afro like that, and say that it gives you power?!"

The crowd looked to Franky to see his reaction. That was a serious accusation right there, and the Cyborg lifted his hand to his hair, "An afro is an afro," he stated.

"Maybe so," Burgess admitted and took a step away from the hole in the wall. "And maybe just because mine is natural, it still doesn't mean it's bigger. But what was that you said before, oh yeah: 'Unfortunately for me, yours can get bigger,'" Burgess started to laugh and sweat started coming down Franky's face nervously. "Well more than one can play at that game," he said and his fists clenched inside their black gloves.

"It can't be," Rebecca whispered in disbelief and her father put an arm on her shoulder to comfort her, though he had a bead of sweat coming down his face as well.

"He can't possibly mean..." Van Auger started but Blackbeard nodded, a wide grin forming on the captain's face. Shiliew smirked and realized why Burgess was made the captain of the first ship in their crew.

Doflamingo went wide-eyed and stared down at the large pirate standing in front of the robot. Burgess was almost twice the size of the huge cyborg and he had to be part giant or something. "Ohh?" he wondered, staring at the pirate as the stone rubble and dirt pieces around him started to lift up.

Kaku was leaning forward in his seat as Jyabura, Kumadori, and Fukuro were freaking out. Can he really do it? The orange haired man wondered to himself and then even he lowered his jaw a little at the next sight.

"Franky no!" Chopper shouted.

"How is it possible?" Now the cigarette did fall out of Sanji's mouth and the whole monster trio were staring forward in complete awe.

Franky took a step back subconsciously and then another. "Ahhh AHHHH!" Burgess was starting to shout and the ground around his feet was shaking. It was like what Don Chinjao did, except more menacing as everyone in the room was focused on his hair. The purple strands making up Jesus Burgess's afro were starting to get larger. The man didn't have a mechanical head, so it was from sheer willpower that his hair was growing faster. The afro grew and grew until it was larger than his opponent's, and then larger still. Brook suddenly felt that his afro, which he was so proud of, was nowhere near as impressive as this man's and he wanted Franky to get away as soon as possible.

The Wrestling Champion finally stopped shouting though he was panting hard. His afro was half the size of his body, except on top of his head. He grinned through heavy breaths at his opponent who was losing hope for the match.

Emporio Ivankov had his mouth dropped and his eyes were huge. He couldn't stop staring at Burgess, just like everyone else in the room. Even Nami was staring at the man in utter confusion, having no idea how a feat like that was possible.

The large pirate took a deep breath and then stared Franky in the eyes. The Straw Hat Pirate stopped stepping back and he put his hands together. He needed to think fast if he was still going to win this, "Franky Radical..." he stopped as the direction he was pointing his hands no longer had a person in it.

The cyborg was able to follow Burgess's movements with his eyes, but he couldn't swing his arms fast enough to the left as the man started rushing him with his right arm pulled all the way back. "Galleon, Lariat!" The man roared with a huge smile and swung his arm at his opponent.

Franky tried swinging his right arm at the same time, but the shockwave that hit him was too much for him to handle.

"Franky run!" The Straw Hats all shouted similar things to their friend but he got hit by the attack. The arm itself never hit their friend, it swung right towards him and past, but that was enough. The shockwave made the air ripple and they could see it shimmering as Franky's right arm was crumpling in the shaky air.

"Yowww!" Franky yelled and tried to pull his arm out of the attack, but it wasn't just his arm caught in it. The shockwave rippled out farther and caught Franky in it while it kept moving and destroyed the large half of the stone section resting on the dirt, blasting the pieces away where purple-shirted guards had to jump around destroying them before they hit the audience.

Luffy leaned out of his seat and got to his feet, "FRANKY!"

The captain looked like he was about to run down and save him, so Zoro grabbed him by the arm at his side. "Don't interrupt their fight," he commanded and Luffy glared down at him. It wasn't about to money or the tournament that Zoro told him this though, and Luffy started to realize it as he was being glared at right back by his first mate. This was a man's duel, every match was one on one and Franky would never want them to jump in and save him.

Franky's screams quieted down as the cyborg tried to hold in his pain and fight his way out of the shockwave. Burgess was surprised his powerful attack didn't rip the man to shreds, but as Franky fell to the ground and the attack went away, it was clear he was close to doing just that.

Both of Franky's arms were mangled with his right no longer looking like it would function. He pushed his left down on the ground and lifted his head up to his enemy, but Jesus was laughing. He'd destroyed Franky's afro with the attack and it was a mess above his head. The cyborg's nose was out of palce a little too and it looked like that function was broken.

Nami put a hand over her mouth and shook in her seat as she watched Franky clutch at the dirt trying to pick himself up. "G-Give up Franky!" she shouted down at him. Some of her crewmates looked at her harshly, but she didn't care and shouted again, "Just give up!"

All of them wanted their friend to abandon the fight, but for Nami to say it out loud made Zoro glare her way. She ignored the harsh glare and did the same thing she did when Usopp and Luffy dueled, she wanted it to end and shouted it again.

Burgess was walking towards his downed opponent as he pulled himself up more. "Franky!" the cyborg on his knees shouted and Nami's words caught in her mouth. "FIREBALLS!" He snapped his head forward and a huge ball of flames shot towards the wrestler walking towards him.

Jesus dodged just in time, but Franky made his word plural and more fireballs were behind it. One slammed into the man's leg as he was dodging and the next hit him straight in the right side as he was trying to dodge with a burnt leg. Burgess shouted out in pain as the fireball engulfed him. Franky tried spitting another fireball but instead he just coughed up blood and his left arm collapsed beneath him, leaving him face-first in the dirt, struggling to push himself up. He pushed down with his right arm and it was too mangled, the second he put pressure on it, the elbow joint broke and his large blue forearm and his hand fell off, though they were already barely recognizable.

"OWWW!" Franky screamed and punched the ground hard with his other hand, trying to fight through the pain.

"Wiihahaha," everyone turned from the breaking cyborg and towards the flames as Burgess walked out of them. His whole body was burned, including his face, but his hair was perfectly fine. It hadn't been singed in the least and only now did they truly comprehend the magnitude of his afro power.

Franky could hear the laugh, but he couldn't lift his head enough. That one attack, the Lariat, it had more strength behind it than Oars packed into all of his hits back on Thriller Bark. He clenched his right fist in the dirt and could hear his opponent start taunting him as he walked forward. I'm low on Cola, I need to repair my arm, along with other parts of me, but, "I won't back down," the cyborg said and lifted his head to look his foe right in the eyes.

Burgess's afro was unnerving. Its hugeness was on a different scale and the man looking into Franky's eyes didn't falter for a second. He kept walking forward and lifted his right arm, covered in the steel mechanism he was going to kill the Straw Hat with.

"Winner:" the announcer shouted and everyone in the room froze. They stopped cheering and yelling for Franky to get up or Burgess to win. Everyone stared up at the ceiling, "Jesus Burgess!"

"What?!" Burgess yelled.

"Huh?" Franky muttered. His vision wasn't working too well and he looked up at the ceiling as the platform started moving down.

The announcer was standing in the dark space on the platform and his body was covered in shadows. "The rules have always been to fight until I call the match. This match is clearly over, and I'd prefer the participants not to be killed. So, this fight is now over," the platform stayed down for a few seconds as everyone turned to Jesus Burgess. They all heard what Blackbeard said about turning Franky into scrap, but they also knew the captain himself was going to want to save that post-match strike for later.

Franky tried standing up, but his proportionately thin legs to his massive body couldn't lift him with the damage done to them by Burgess's attack. He had no idea that weapon on his arm was going to deal so much damage and he regretted not taking more care to avoid it.

Sanji lit up a cigarette in the stands and leaned back in his seat, "Head down there Chopper," the chef said. Franky wasn't going to be in the mood to come back and sit with them after that defeat.

Jesus Burgess started laughing harder and headed back to the stands as the cyborg continued to clutch the ground in defeat. The pain of his physical wounds was nothing compared to how much it hurt to be saved like that.

"I don't care if it hurts his pride," Nami stated while Chopper walked down there. "He's alive and that's what really matters."

A few nodded their heads in agreement, but most of them just stared down and watched as Chopper turned large and lifted up Franky. It was a rough defeat, but their cyborg would put himself back together.

The second Franky was taken through the doorway, the announcer shouted, "Eustass Kid vs Stix!"

The Straw Hats were still upset about Franky's defeat, but the sound of one of their rivals going up intrigued them. Kid was another supernova like Luffy and Zoro, and they were excited to see some of his real strength.

The red haired pirate descended the steps towards the arena, smirking and cracking his neck to either side. His opponent stood up from near XDrake and started walking down as well towards the sand section.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the arena, one man snuck off with everyone's eyes looking the other way. Ooh, I don't want to miss this fight, but... the man with the large 3 sticking out of the top of his head sighed and scurried off into the nearby doorway. I have to go! The man's stomach rumbled and he felt the pressure rise in his bowels.

"Oooh oooh," he jogged faster down the halls, regretting the omelet he had for breakfast. "Dairy always does this to me," Mr. 3 muttered as he turned the next corner and snapped his head both ways. "Where is the bathroom?!" He ran off and all the doors around him looked to be for bedrooms. Downstairs! He knew where the one in the mess hall was, and it would be faster to go there than to head up to his room.

The former Baroque Works agent sprinted for the nearest stairwell and he felt the pressure rise to the breaking point. "Ahhh," he ran across the mess hall to the bathroom and sprinted inside...

Three minutes later, the door to the bathroom opened up and a very relieved man came walking out. He wiped some sweat off his face and when he looked down he kicked his foot out a couple times to get the loose piece of toilet paper off him. Galdino sighed and looked around the empty mess hall he walked into. The staircase he came down was beckoning him, but something caught his eye and sweat started pouring down the sides of his face.

He creaked his head slowly to the right where he stared at a barely open door, a door he never noticed before. It was opened inwards, as if someone on the other side of the wall pulled it in and left it for someone like him to enter. "Ignore it!" the man said in a high-pitched voice. He turned the other direction and took a step, but then his mind filled with images of those guards dressed in purple stopping explosions. Something is really wrong here, he looked back at the door and it was as if it was beckoning him.

Mr. 3 took a step back and then turned his body completely. Ohh, what are you doing? he asked himself as he tiptoed towards the door. He peeked his head into the crack in the wall where the mystery door was, and he froze in his tracks.

"Would've been better to get Kid's," a low voice stated on the inside of the room. Galdino was standing still as a statue with only the top half of his head poking into the entrance, but it was dark enough in there that no one had seen him yet. The man with a large three made of hair on his head looked around the room quickly, staring at all the individual glass boxes on top of small pillars. They were lined up in rows up and down the room, dozens, even hundreds of them.

There were two men wearing yellow on the inside of the room, both standing in front of a glass cage. It was bathed in light from a lamp on the ceiling, showing what was inside the crate that the men were looking at. Mr. 3 was staring at the strange object in fear as the men continued their conversation, "Didn't even take Kid three minutes to take this one down. He's ruthless, heard he executed the guy in cold blood, we'll probably have to wait for his for a few rounds."

"True, but that wasn't to say his opponent was weak." the other man countered as he reached inside the box and lifted the object inside. "Triceratops," the larger man wearing yellow lifted the red fruit above his head and smirked at it. "I wonder how it tastes."

"Well keep wondering," the smaller man wearing glasses stated and snatched it from his comrade's hands faster than Mr. 3 could follow. The larger guy seemed surprised as well by the sudden lack of fruit in his hand. "I'll put it in the Zoan pile for now until Dex decides who gets it."

"Whatever," the larger man said. The two of them were going to continue their banter, when they heard clatter behind them and snapped their heads to the door.

"Uh oh," Galdino squeaked in a girlish voice as the men stared straight at him. The man with the weird hair pulled his head out of the room and sprinted for the stairs. I have to tell Buggy! Wait, no I'll get Mugiwara! He's strong! Mr. 3 got to the bottom of the stairs and heard a voice yelling at him to stop far behind him. "Crap!"

Mr. 3 was sprinting as fast as he could up the stairs, so fast in fact that he slammed straight into a man walking down the corridor on the next floor when he turned the corner so fast. Bumping into someone is usually a joint inconvenience, but this man's body was like a steel wall and Galdino bounced off and fell to the floor in pain. "What are you doing?" a voice said from above him and he looked up nervously.

Three men in purple uniforms were standing above him, looking down with judging eyes. The one on the left who spoke had a scruffy brown beard and was a well-built man with broad shoulders. A man with a similar build, but with blonde hair stood on the right and glared down with a small grin on his face. It was the one in the middle who he bumped into that was truly terrifying though.

The largest man's eyes were dark and shadowed by the dark blue bangs going down right over them. He had a menacing aura about him and Mr. 3 pushed himself back on his hands where he bumped into something else. Galdino gulped and looked further up, to see that he bumped straight into the larger man in yellow's legs, with the smaller one right beside him. Despite the fear he felt surrounded by all these enemies, defense mechanisms kicked in and he was about to start lying about what he was doing. That's when the shorter man wearing yellow spoke, "He saw the fruit room Dex."

3's instincts kicked in at the perfect moment as he held up his arms and created a dome of hard clay around him. It sounded like the men outside were trying to break his hardest clay and he didn't have a lot of time. What do I do? There is only one thing to do. Scream! The panicking man opened his mouth to yell, but sound never came out. A fist smashed through the clay covering and gripped him around the throat, "Can't have you making a ruckus out here," the blue haired man stated and lifted his prey up in the air so their faces were right in front of each other. Galdino was gasping for air, and his fear hit its peak as his foe lifted his head a little and the man called Dex's red irises met his own.

Crack, "Go check the fruit room," Dex stated and dropped the limp body from his hand. The men in yellow left immediately. Galdino's neck was twisted sideways and the man who dropped him looked at Flint, "Take care of this body."

"Got it," the man with a brown beard stated. Flint grabbed the dead man and tossed him over his shoulder.

Dex turned to the man with blonde hair and Steel stepped up to him, "His name was Galdino, worked for Buggy the Clown."

"That idiot?" the man with blue hair smirked. "For a second there I thought we might have a problem, but if that clown gets worked up, we can always take care of him too. For now we'll stay quiet about this, keep it between as few people as possible."

"Roger," Steel agreed and walked off in a different direction. Dex looked down the stairs one more time and then frowned, If he had made it back to the arena, we could've had a serious problem. Then again, the man lifted his left hand and watched the sparks flicker on the tips of his fingers. He smirked and clenched his fist, under strict orders not to show off his new power to anyone, at least not yet.

A/N Hey everyone! The Straw Hats winning streak finally ends ;(, let's see if their one remaining member can keep them to one loss for the round. Hope you enjoyed Franky and Jesus's fight, even if it was more comical than most of the others with the afro power and such. Eustass Kid also advances, so that'll be a cool match next time. Wonder if Kid can pull out a win against him? And one more thing... MR.3 NOOO! I love that guy, love his character, but he had to go (literally haha, ha, ha... ;( ) and what was up with that room of fruit? Next time there'll be a few matches, if you can guess who these two's opponents are, or get at least one correct, then I'll give you a shoutout at the top of the chapter! For the first of the next matches, we get XDRAKE, and the match after his has LADY ALVIDA! So guess who they'll be versing and give me some feedback in a review if you like!

Lightningblade49

lol sure

Afro power who shall win, is Franky aloud to use his Shogun robot? You can use any wepaons you have and his robot is definitely one of those tools plus see it clash with Burgess.

Franky Shogun may have made a difference in the fight, but it was on the ship and there are rules in place about not leaving the arena.

Legendary Cryptid

What did Zoro's four fingers mean?

Who knows... maybe check the bracket, if anyone has been keeping up with it. Maybe he just means he's going to kill them all in four days. Maybe he just wanted to intimidate the fuck out of them. XD

LittlemissTrafalgar

I laughed my ass when they all went wild because of that "AFRO POWER!" and I never thought of Burgess hiding an afro inside his mask but this fight is really interesting! I know that you just updated but I can't wait to see the fight. I also want to see Chopper's and who will be his opponent but let's see Franky's fight first! LittlemissTrafalgar went wild shouting, "Arghhhhh! Go Franky! You're so Manly! Your Afro power is the most powerful set aside Luffy's and Brook's! Defeat Burgess! Franky~" Lol!

PS. I don't know West and Curas, are they OC or they're in canon?

PPS. Oh... yeah... right! The mermaids! Sorry tmb1112, don't forgive Caribou XD

Sorry for taking a while with the update but I'm going to start the next one now so it probably won't take as long. West and Curas were both OCs I made to fill spots in the tournament, since a lot of crews would enter a full six team members, but we don't know six of them. Same reason I added Stix in this chapter to fight Kid, even if I didn't show the fight like with Pell's. Sorry to disappoint with Franky losing the match, but in the end, Burgess's afro power was unstoppable. Chopper's fight is coming soon, probably two or three more chapters, and yeah, fuck caribou XD!

Melashnaw

Why do I feel so excited when I see your chapter ?
Haha, it was great, as always !

Glad you liked it!

Guest

HahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA— AFRO POWER!

That must have been the FUNNIEST chapter I've EVER read in my ENTIRE LIFE!

O-Oh my god—I CANTSTOPLAUGHING—

*Falls out of bed still continuing to laugh*

Hahaha, I laughed a lot from your review so thanks for that! I hope it wasn't too over the top with all the afro power in this chapter, but now we'll get back to more serious action fights in the next few.

Guest

This might actually be my all time favorite fanfic. I just decided so, at least. I'm especially looking forward to Crocodile fighting, unless i forgot that he already has :/ Are the Amazon Lily people there? i don't remember...

Amazon Lily people are not there, and Crocodile has yet to fight, though his will be a fun one to write. He has a powerful opponent in the first round, won't say who yet, but it'll be a good match, probably its own chapter. Thanks for the great review, I'm happy you like it so much!

Guest

This fanfiction is the most brilliant I've read, though I hope you are flexible on the levels of force. I can't wait to see the next fight of Arlong I would give anything to see Arlong humiliate sanji be fun to see the reactions of defeat sanji nami Jimbei and the others. i like to see arlong win some more match. There will be peace between nami and Arlong?

I kind of wonder if you wrote all of the last four reviews, all about how much Arlong should win this tournament. If not, then you guys really want to see him succeed... for some reason. I'm still angry at him for all his meanness to sweet Koala, but there have been a few upsets. Let's see if Sanji can demolish that piece of 'fish' XDXDXD or if Arlong can pull out a 'W.' I'm also working on some character development for those fishmen if you noticed in that chapter and when Chew confronted Usopp early in the tourney. Peace between Nami and Arlong may be impossible, but with the ulterior motives going on in the background, enemies may have to team up against this mysterious foe.